The Feminist Spectator ruminates on theatre, performance, film, and television, focusing on gender, sexuality, race, other identities and overlaps, and our common humanity. It addresses how the arts shape and reflect our lives; how they participate in civic conversations; and how they serve as a vehicle for social change and a platform for pleasure. It’s accessible to anyone committed to the arts’ political meanings.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Just a note to publicize an important new source of information on work by women and trans people in Canadian theatre . . .

The Feminist Spectator

Queer Performance: Women and Trans Artists

CTR 149, Winter 2012

Edited by Moynan King

CTR 149includes
performance texts by Jess Dobkin and Ivan Coyote along with critical essays and
interviews of artists such as Trey Anthony, Nathalie Claude, Mariko Tamaki and
Tristan Whiston, to name a few. These artists have led the way in
Canadian performance innovation with multidisciplinary and theatrical
experimentation while drawing, in many cases, substantial audiences and
dedicated fans. This issue will show that queer performance almost always draws
artists from other disciplines—including film, dance, music, new media, design,
and the visual arts. The assembled articles are just a few pieces in the
massive puzzle of queer Canadian performance.

The issue includes:

Getting
Kinky Inside and Outside: A Conversation with Trey Anthony
Superstar playwright and actress Trey Anthony opens up to SPY DE´NOMME´ WELCH
about representation and identity in Canadian theatre, and shares her insights
into the spiritual impact of storytelling.

Funny Girl: An Interview with Mariko Tamaki
Award winning writer and playwright Mariko Tamaki sits down to talk to ABI
SLONE about her career as a writer, what it’s like to be on stage, and how
queer subject matter just won’t go away.

About Me

I'm a writer who loves going to the theatre and the movies, watching television, reading novels, and then thinking about what all of it means. I teach at Princeton University, in the English Department and in the Lewis Center for the Arts Theatre Program. I also direct Princeton's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I believe in quality writing about the arts and the importance of the arts to social life. I also believe the arts do and should give us pleasure and hope, as well as inspiring our creativity and a more expansive sense of what our lives together can be.